A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Baud. GuUi three 

 cheverons argent. 



descended to his son William, a minor." He died 

 between 1 274 and 1 278, and was succeeded by his son 

 Walter Baud,™ whose holding 

 in Little Hadham was assessed 

 at half a fee in 1303." He 

 was Sheriff of Hertfordshire 

 and Essex in I 307 ^^ and was 

 still living in 1313.^^ William 

 Band, apparently his son, for- 

 feited under Edward II as an 

 adherent of Thomas Earl of 

 Lancaster, but his manor of 

 Little Hadham was restored 

 to him in 1327.-'' In 133 i 

 he joined with his wife Joan 

 in settling the manor on his 



son John,-* who inherited it at his father's death 

 about 1343.^' In 1346 John Baud died in Gascony^' 

 and was succeeded by his son William Baud, let., who 

 with his wife Alice made a settlement of the manor 

 in 1371.^' William Baud is said to have been the 

 first of this family to reside at Little Hadham,^' and 

 the family was certainly living there in 1404, when 

 William's grandson \\ illiam Baud was born there.'" 

 William Baud the elder was sheriff for Hertfordshire 

 and Essex in I 37 1 and M.P. for the county in 1373." 

 He died before 1388.'^ He appears to have been 

 succeeded by his eldest son Walter Baud, who died 

 at Little Hadham in 1420,'' leaving no issue. The 

 manor then probably passed to his brother John, 

 and on his death in 1422 ^* to John's son William, 

 who made proof of age in 1425.'' William died 

 the following year without issue,'^ and the manor of 

 Little Hadham apparently reverted to his uncle 

 Thomas B.iud, third son of William Baud. In 

 1427 Thomas Baud settled lands in Stortford called 

 ' Plantyngs ' on his son Thomas in trust to maintain 

 a chantry priest for three and a half years after his 

 death, to pray for the souls of William Baud and Alice 

 his wife and Thomas Baud the elder and Mary his 

 wife. These prayers were to be said in the church 

 of Little Hadham every Friday and Sunday and on 

 other days in the chapel of the manor-house there.'' 

 Thomas Baud died in 1430,'^ and the manor 

 descended to his son Thomas, who was M.P. for the 

 county in 1432 and sheriff for Hertfordshire in 

 1446-7.'' On his death in 1449 he left the manor 



Capell. GuUialion 

 bettueen three crosstets 

 jitchy or. 



Baud, who was sheriff for Hertfordshire in 1469,^' 

 died seised of the manor in 1483." His son Thomas 

 was made a knight of the Bath in 1494." He 

 apparently fell into the hands of Empson, the 

 notorious attorney of the duchy of Lancaster, and 

 a heavy fine imposed upon him for the redemption 

 of his lands compelled him to mortgage his property 

 in 1503," and in 1504 he sold the manor of Little 

 Hadham to Thomas Lord Darcy.'** In January 

 1504-5 Lord Darcy conveyed the manor to Sir 

 William Capell, kt.,''^ son of 

 John Capell of Stoke by Nay- 

 land, CO. Suffolk, and twice 

 Mayor of London.*' He died 

 in 1 5 1 5 ** and his son Giles 

 succeeded him. In 15 19 Sir 

 Giles Capell accompanied 

 Henry VIII to the ' Field of 

 the Cloth of Gold ' and was 

 one of the challengers there.^' 

 He died in 1556 and his son 

 Henry in 1588.'" It was 

 probably Henry who built the 

 present house between 1572 



(when he was still living at Rayne) and 1578, when 

 he entertained Queen Elizabeth at Little Hadham." 

 The manor descended to Henry's son Arthur Capell, 

 who was renowned for his hospitality.*^ Sir Arthur 

 Capell was constantly in communication with Sir 

 Robert Cecil, dating his letters 'from my poor house at 

 Hadham,' at one time asking him for some advance- 

 ment for his son Edward Capell,*' and at another 

 sending him a fat buck or a pair of does from Hadham 

 Park as a. recognition of Cecil's favours.** His eldest 

 son Henry died in 1622,** and in 1627 he settled 

 the reversion of the manor on his grandson Arthur 

 Capell on the occasion of his marriage with Eliza- 

 beth Morrison, only daughter of Sir Charles Morri- 

 son, bart.*' He died in 1632 and was buried at 

 Hadham, and the manor descended according to the 

 settlement to his grandson Arthur Capell,*' who re- 

 presented his county in the Short Parliament of 1639 

 and again in the Long Parliament of 1640, when he 

 was one of the first members to present a petition 

 against ship money.*' Later, however, he became 

 one of the most prominent leaders of the Royalists. 

 In 1 64 1 Charles I created him Lord Capell of 



of Little Hadham to his son Ralph." Ralph Hadham Parva.*' He raised a troop of men at his 



" Cal. Close, 1237-4.2, p. 468. 



•" Assize R. 3 ?4 A, m. 28 d. ; sec grant 

 bjr William in 1274. quoted in Stow, Suri<e>' 

 of London (1720), pt. iii, 164. 



"' FiuJ. Aids, ii, 431. In 1309 he 

 presented his son Robert, then under 

 canonical age, to the church of Corringham 

 {Reg. of Bps. of Lend. [Cant, and York 

 SocJ, i, 97). 



^ V.C.H. Hera. Families, 281. 



*' Cal. Pal, 1307-13, p. 605. 



" Cal. Close, 1327-:^, p. 22. 



« Feet of F. Div. Co. 5 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 89. John le Baud, parson of Corring- 

 ham, was an agent in the settlement. 



" See Minet, ' Baud family of Corring- 

 ham and Little Hadham,' Essex Arch. 

 Soc. Trans. (New Ser.}, x, 149. 



" Ibid. ; Round, loc. cit. 



** See Feet of F. Herts. 45 Edw. Ill, 

 ho, 620. 



** Morant, Essex, i, 241, 



'" Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. VI, no. 51. 



" KC.H. Hens. Famth..,, 282, 290. 



" Minet, loc. cit. 



" M. I, given by Chauncy. 



*< Chan. Inq. p.m, i Hen, VI, no. 53. 



'' Ibid. 4 Hen. VI, no. 51. 



^ Ibid. 5 Hen. VI, no. 29. 



" Chauncy, op. cit. 153. 



'' M. I. given by Chauncy. 



» r.CH. Herts. Families, 282, 290. 



'" P.C.C 18 Rous. 



" V.C.H. Herts. Families, 282. 



■" Chan. Inq. p.m. i Ric. Ill, no. 6. 



" Shaw, Knights of Engl, i, 144. 



** Deed in possession of Mr. W. Minet. 

 Richard Empson was one of the mort- 

 gagees. 



••^ Deed in possession of Mr.W. Minet. 



*' Ibid. In 1506 Thomas Baud and 

 his wife Anne quitclaimed all right in 

 the manor to John Holden and John 

 Barfote, elk., trustees for Sir William 

 Capell (Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 22 

 Hen. VII ; Deed of release by Thomas 

 Baud to the same to use of Capell in 

 possession of Mr. Minet). 



52 



" Stow, Sari/, of London, v, 127, 182. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxx, 25. 



*' Stowe, Annals, 509. 



"• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cix, 23 ; 

 ccxvi, 96. It appears that inquisitions 

 were not taken in either case for the 

 Capells' Hertfordshire lands. 



*' J. Nichols, Prog, of Queen Eliz. 

 (1823), ii, 222; Glasscock, Sec. of St. 

 Michael, Bishop's Stortford, 59. 



" Bast Herts. Arch. Soc. Tram, iii, 312. 



" Cecil MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.), xi, 

 103.457. 53^! tii, 136. 



" Ibid, xi, 103 ; Cal. S. P. Dom. 

 1611-18, pp. 49, 88. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcvi, 

 148. 



^ Ibid, cccclxv, 54 J Feet of F. Diy. 

 Co. Mich. 3 Chas. I. 



'' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxv, 54. 



" F. Skeet, 'Arthur Lord Capell,' East 

 Herts. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 314; Did. 

 Nat. Biog. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, s.v. CapelL 



